Cullhuas District

Cullhuas District is one of twenty-eight districts of the province Huancayo in Peru.[1]

Cullhuas
Country Peru
RegionJunín
ProvinceHuancayo
FoundedApril 23, 1954
CapitalCullhuas
Government
  MayorJeremias Heraclio Olivera Aliaga
Area
  Total108.01 km2 (41.70 sq mi)
Elevation
3,663 m (12,018 ft)
Population
  Total2,940
  Density27/km2 (70/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-5 (PET)
UBIGEO120113

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (63.39%) learnt to speak in childhood, 36.53% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).[2]

References

  1. (in Spanish) Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática. Banco de Información Distrital Archived April 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved April 11, 2008.
  2. inei.gob.pe Archived January 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine INEI, Peru, Censos Nacionales 2007, Frequencias: Preguntas de Población: Idioma o lengua con el que aprendió hablar (in Spanish)

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